Every Friday you can contact us for a weekly overview in which we briefly look back at the most striking, interesting or most important news items per working day. This week, among other things, impetigo, sky-high foreign healthcare costs, mother who fatally poisoned son and suspected double murder care farm in the news. In this weekly overview the most important events of this week.
Monday: ‘Getting older and getting dementia are not the same thing’
In the future, the elderly would have to pay more for less care, with fewer caring staff. Demissionary minister Conny Helder (Long-term Care) says she hopes to prevent this by making the elderly more independent, so that they need less care. However, getting old and getting dementia are not the same thing.
Tuesday: impetigo: symptoms, contagiousness and treatment
At the beginning of July, RIVM and Nivel reported a striking increase in impetigo among young children between 0 and 4 years old. Impetigo is far from rare and mainly occurs in young children. How does it arise? What are the symptoms? How contagious is impetigo? And what can you do about it? You will find an answer to all these questions in this article.
Wednesday: Dutch people have to sell their house to pay foreign healthcare costs
More and more Dutch people have healthcare costs of tens of thousands of euros because they received healthcare abroad. Some are forced to sell their homes to pay their hospital bills. Health insurers advise everyone to check before their holiday whether medical costs abroad are included in their package.
Thursday: Ten years in prison for woman who fatally poisoned 11-year-old son
35-year-old Jolanda M. from Zevenbergen, who poisoned her 11-year-old child by giving him an overdose of heavy painkillers, was sentenced to ten years in prison on Thursday. In the eyes of the court, she was guilty of the manslaughter of her son and also consciously accepted the chance that he could die because of her.
Friday: shooter of double murder care farm gets life sentence
The court in Rotterdam has sentenced John S. from Oud-Alblas to life imprisonment. The punishment is for the murder of a 34-year-old employee and a 16-year-old girl on the care farm Tro Tardi in Alblasserdam on May 6 last year and the murder of a 60-year-old shoemaker in Vlissingen two days earlier.
By: National Care Guide
2023-07-14 13:30:00
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